NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT

To:        All National Park Service Areas and Offices

From:      Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office

Day/Date:  Monday, April 17, 1995

Broadcast: By 1000 ET

INCIDENTS

95-152 - Zion (Utah) - Follow-up on Landslide

Park maintenance crews completed emergency repairs to the water line serving
the headquarters area and campgrounds last Friday, and both the South and
Watchman campgrounds were reopened in time for Easter weekend.  The six-mile
inner canyon drive is the only part of the park that still remains closed to
public access.  No estimates are yet available as to when the road might
reopen.  [Denny Davies, PIO, ZION, 4/14]

95-154 - Rocky Mountain (Colorado) - Search and Rescue

On April 7th, F.C. and her two children, J.C., 11, and C.C., 5,
headed out on a backpacking trip across the continental divide by way of the
Flattop and North Inlet trails.  They had little snow or cold weather
experience.  After crossing the divide, the pack containing their camping gear
fell onto a frozen creek; while trying to retrieve it, the mother fell through
the ice into chest-deep water.  All of their equipment was lost.  They left
their soaked sleeping bags, tent and extra clothing along the creek side and
continued along the North Inlet trail.  After spending two nights in
temperatures below freezing with only their coats for warmth, F.C.
left her children, who could no longer walk due to frostbite, and hiked to the
trailhead to obtain help.  There she met a rescue team preparing to leave in
search of the family.  Ranger Chris Ryan, VIP Bill Keiss and Firepro staffer
Ray Miller found the children near the Big Pool backcountry site.  The
children's feet and hands were exposed, and C.C. had become lethargic and
sleepy from hypothermia.  The rescuers bundled the children in clothing and
carried them a mile and a half to a site where a helicopter from St. Mary's
Hospital in Grand Junction had landed.  The flight nurse determined that
C.C.'s core body temperature had dropped to 88 degrees.  Both are being
treated for frostbite and hypothermia.  [Sharon Brubaker, ROMO, 4/15]

95-155 - George Washington Parkway (Virginia) - Resource Violation Arrests

Park Police officers arrested three individuals for cutting a paulownia tree
near Mount Vernon on April 11th.  This is the fourth incident of paulownia tree
cutting on the parkway this spring.  The high value of the wood on the black
market has increased the amount of tree poaching in the area.  One case has so
far gone to court.  [Dan Sealy, NCRO, 4/12]

95-156 - Grand Canyon (Arizona) - MVA with Multiple Injuries

On the morning of April 15th, rangers responded to a motor vehicle accident on
East Rim Drive in which a car with six occupants - four adults and two children
- had rolled over.  Although none was in critical condition, one had to be
extricated from the vehicle and a second had to be flown to Flagstaff Medical
Center for treatment.  The remainder were taken to the park clinic for
evaluation.  [Karyn Shinkle, GRCA, 4/15]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

FIRE ACTIVITY

* Mammoth Cave - A concessions employee on her way to work around 6 a.m. on
April 11th spotted a fire near the Carmichael entrance to the park.  Forty-
three park employees, a nine-member fire crew from the Great Onyx Job Corps
Center, and firefighters from two local departments brought the 144-acre fire
under control by 9 p.m.  Investigation led to the questioning of Mark Shields,
23, of Park City, Kentucky, who admitted to  entering through the Carmichael
entrance, now a closed area, and throwing a lit cigarette along the roadway. 
The U.S. Attorney's Office is reviewing the case for possible prosecution. 
[Phil Veluzat, CR, MACA]

OPERATIONAL NOTES

1) Coast Guard MOUs - Isle Royale is attempting to locate any existing
memoranda of understanding between individual parks and the United States Coast
Guard.  The park is expanding cooperative efforts with the Coast Guard on Lake
Superior for EMS transport, prisoner transport and dispatching services. 
Existing model agreements would be helpful.  If you have one, please send a
copy to Peter Armington via cc:Mail at ISRO or call 906-482-0986.

MEMORANDA

"National Leadership Council Meeting", sent by Deputy Director Reynolds to all
employees on March 23rd:

The National Leadership Council (NLC) met in Washington last week to act on
reorganization issues and consider reports from a number of program managers. 
The following reorganization decisions were made: 

1. Cultural Partnership Program - Program support will be divided between the
Washington Office (WASO), a National Program Center (NPC), and System Support
Offices (SSOs).  WASO will provide national leadership and advocacy, policy,
and regulatory formulation and direction, program guidance, budget formulation,
legislative support, and program accountability.  The NPC will provide overall
administrative and regulatory oversight of State Historic Preservation Offices
and National Preservation Programs.  SSOs will be responsible for the direct
delivery of technical assistance and training to cluster preservation partners. 
FTE will be provided from SSOs to accomplish the tasks identified.  The
cultural partnership professional staff anticipates that these tasks will
require 6-13 FTE per Field Area.  Field Directors will allocate FTEs as they
determine appropriate to provide direct technical assistance.

2. Implementation - Implementation of the reorganization will commence
immediately after Senate approval of the Reprogramming Letter (expected very
soon).  This will be the date certain for the BEGINNING of the implementation
process.  Formal financial transfer under the reorganization will occur on
October 1, 1995.  The restructuring team will begin immediately to design a
detailed series of implementation steps to facilitate the process of full
transition to the new organization.

3. Recreation Grants Program - These programs will be maintained and managed in
the five Field Directorates currently conducting the program (Intermountain
West, Northeast, Southeast, Central, Pacific West).  Grant Administration funds
will be distributed according to a workload-related formula to be developed by
the Associate Director, Cultural Resource Stewardship and Partnerships (Kate
Stevenson).  FTE will be allocated from each Field Director's SSO pool in
accordance with the distribution of administrative funding.  It is the
responsibility of the affected Field Directorates to cover boundary changes
resulting from the restructuring initiative.  Each Field Directorate Office
(FDO) will take care of its own field area needs.  In addition, Alaska will be
served from the Pacific West Field Directorate and NCR from the Northeast Field
Directorate.          

4. Lands Program - All lands project office FTE will be managed as part of a
central pool.  FTE for project offices will count against parks and will be
relocated as needed, as the requirement for and size of these offices changes
Servicewide. There is a need to cover the land management functions for each
Field Directorate.  The Associate Director, Professional Services (Deny Galvin)
will negotiate with each Field Director to determine a minimum number of FTEs
in each Field Directorate that will not be managed as part of the pool.  If
agreement cannot be reached, discrepancies will be forwarded to the Deputy
Director for decision. Day-to-day supervision and management of SSO and project
office lands staff will be the responsibility of the Field Directors.  Only FTE
distribution of the agreed upon central pool will be managed by WASO.  Lands
FTEs funded from ONPS at FDOs and SSOs to perform non-acquisition related lands
functions may be added at FDO discretion.
 
5. Field Director Authorities - Field Directors will be given latitude to
determine the structure of their individual offices, so long as the changes do
not result in additional decision-making layers or other forms which run
counter to the intent of the restructuring plan.  Deputy field directors will
not be permitted to serve as SSO Superintendents, even if they are physically
located in the same geographic location and building.  Desk officers will not
have line authority over superintendents.  Deputy field directors can have line
authority over superintendents.

6. Training and Employee Development - 138 FTE shall be the upper limit for the
staffing of the training function through FY 1999.  Additional analysis will be
conducted to assure that this number cannot be adjusted downward based on
reengineering, contracting out or through other means.  The Associate Director,
Administration (Mary Bradford) will take the lead for this determination.  Of
the proposed FY 1999 allocation of 138 FTE: 25 FTE will come from the FY 1995
Harpers Ferry Center allocation (for Williamsport Training Center); at least
30, and up to 43, will come out of WASO's 653 FTE; 25 trainee slots (10 for
Williamsport, 15 assigned in the Training Division's February 15 submission)
will be "floated" against Servicewide FTE lapses.   Fifteen FTE included in the
FY 1996 administration budget will be counted as field unit FTE, as will the
remainder (30 FTE) of the 138 FTE.  These 30 FTE will be given high priority
during the allocation of the 600 FTE to be reduced from central offices and
replaced in field units during the FY 1997-FY 1999 budget processes, providing
associated funding is made available.  If the total FTE allocated to training
can be reduced as a result of the analysis conducted by Mary Bradford, that
reduction should be based on the current ratio of FTE contribution between the
parks and WASO.

7. Equal Opportunity (EO) - In the EO function, reporting lines of authority
are currently dictated by Departmental Policy, but NPS desires will be
determined and addressed.  Each Field Director will decide the number of FTE to
be placed in the FDO, SSOs and parks, based on the projected workload and
determination of the best way to manage the civil rights function.  This will
be based on the assumptions that WASO will continue to manage centrally the
formal complaints process and that there is no WASO function related to EO
recruitment except as that function related to the staffing of WASO.  There
should be a transition from collateral duty to permanent EO staff duty
stationed in certain parks.  It is critical that through this transition
process employee access to counseling services be maintained.  Increased FTE
required for park-based positions will compete with other FTE needs through the
budget process.  Ultimately, the clusters will determine the relative priority
for these positions in comparison to other needs.

8. The allocation of FTEs for administrative support of the Denver-based
national program centers, including the Denver Service Center, needs to be
determined by WASO.  Discussion should include the Field Director from the
Intermountain West to determine if any economies of scale are possible. 

9. Mary Bradford will develop and propose to the NLC a staffing plan for the
new organization.

10. John Cook (Field Director, Intermountain West Field Directorate) will
develop for consideration by the NLC a list of unfunded program mandates
(initiatives which require action to be in compliance with legal and/or policy
directives, but which are not supported by commensurate budget increases).

Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the cooperation and
support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.

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